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Speakers vs. headphones
I have the Audeze LCD2 driven by the Schiit Lyr.It is reasonable sound......but compared to my speakers......as Docks wrote....."there are no chills".....? 
To those with multiple tables/arms/cartridges
What great news about your TT-101.I guess those old Victors just need current running through them regularly?For what it's worth.......I never use the variable pitch/speed control on my TT-101.Welcome to the club. 
Question on FR 66s
Dazzdax,Have you checked the alignment with a good Protractor or Universal Template like the Feikert?If it is easy for you to adjust the Pivot to Spindle distance of the tonearm....just do it so it aligns with the your preferred geometry (Baerwald... 
Speakers vs. headphones
Speakers can give me chills down my spine, headphones have never done that.+1 
Kid Creole & Coconuts
Yes....that's a good one Mrmitch.'Particul'y Int'rested'.......'Name It' :-)'Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places' is also great on vinyl.'Private Waters in the Great Divide' however is disappointing.And 'The Best Of Kid Creole & the Coconuts' has in... 
To those with multiple tables/arms/cartridges
Dear Lew,As this Thread is about turntables, arms and cartridges......pretty much anything analogue is relevant :-)What great news about your procurement of the TT-101 Clock ICs.Perhaps your tenacity will allow you to be the saviour of many of the... 
To those with multiple tables/arms/cartridges
Dear Lew,"The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain".Which is why I don't think I can go back to one turntable, even though I was satisfied with one turntable all my life until 4-5 years ago. You may as well ask Casanova why he needed so many wo... 
To those with multiple tables/arms/cartridges
As Thuchan, Manitunc and Nandric have mentioned.......There are several issues and methods possible for the use of arms to compare various cartridges?Manitunc correctly states that one turntable fitted with two or more identical arms...is the most... 
To those with multiple tables/arms/cartridges
Dear Thuchan,In the age of modern computing loading images should be a user friendly one step approach directly from the computer, everything else is somehow like working at stone age.I couldn't agree with you more.Instead of all the young Turks s... 
To those with multiple tables/arms/cartridges
You have some woes to discuss Lew? 
Kid Creole & Coconuts
You're right Marty,Just put on Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places and have been listening all afternoon.Great album.There are many you mention which I've never heard of?Are they available on vinyl? 
To those with multiple tables/arms/cartridges
I realised of course....that the bronze casting was in sand, and that the 'positive' wood moulds I had.....were for creating the 'negative' moulds in the sand.Here is a video of the casting process which is very interesting.Machining was not requi... 
Kid Creole & Coconuts
I would have loved to have seen them in NYC but never did :-(I can't understand how they managed to pay for all their performers?....the Coconuts, a brass section as well as a percussion and rhythm section?You'd have to play to an audience of thou... 
To those with multiple tables/arms/cartridges
Don,To see how to post 'actual pictures' on A'Gon.....click on the 'markup tags' at the bottom of the 'Your response' box.The picture you want to post can't just be directly from your computer library.It needs a Web address (ie...its own url).To g... 
To those with multiple tables/arms/cartridges
Hi Don,Thanks for the kind words :-)Here is a different view of the TT-81 and here is another.Yes....I still have the wood moulds that the foundry made from my design drawings. How the wood doesn't catch fire with the molten bronze I don't underst...